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Make simple cartoons

Make simple cartoons with Pixton, especially designed for education, it allows people to create fun dialogs. Interfaces in many [...]

Put the words in order to make a sentence

For a quick game of word ordering to make sentences, try out Wall [...]

What Japan thinks

I’ve always thought that talking about numbers gets short shrift (not enough attention) in most language classes. People talk about numbers a lot in normal conversation, and we hardly ever practice them in class. I’d like to do a whole class about using numbers in English. I think it would be a blast.

I’d [...]

Simple English

Like Wikipedia in Japanese? In English? Try it in simple English. Great for student research and [...]

80 million tiny images

OK, these guys from MIT wanted to see what 80 million images looked like whent they were all squashed together. But the neat thing is that they took about 74,000 vocabulary words, and created an image out of other images to show what the meaning was. This is actually a project to [...]

M-learning is augmented

MIT Press has a recet book out on Augmented Learning. With e-learning and m-learning (mobile), and alternative reality games, there is a new movement to take the learning outside the classroom. This book provides research and suggestions on how to make that work in today’s educational situation.

Japan is the best place on earth [...]

Make up vocabulary and reading lessons in minutes from prepared texts. Lesson Writer. Here is something from their web page.

How it works

Copy & paste any text you choose into LessonWriter.
LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and [...]

Start video at exactly the right place

This little tool for YouTube videos is very simple. It splices your videos (hence the name splicd), so you can start and stop at exactly the right place.

You can do this without a web site, by changing the URL at YouTube, but it is hard to remember how to [...]